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{{quote|''"They didn't want me."''
|'''Billy''' after being rejected by [[H.P. Lovecraft|Yog]] [[Captain Ersatz|Sawhaw]], ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
Well, it looks like this is the end. The [[Eldritch Abomination]] rears up on its ugly, misshapen limbs, and devours the [[Idiot Hero|lovable hero]] face first. The audience does a collective cringe since, as everyone knows, watching someone getting [[Nightmare Fuel|eaten alive]] is [[Family-Unfriendly Death|not a particularly pretty sight]]. Audiences prepare for the sickening crunch as the monster...
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* In at least two episodes of ''[[Torchwood]]'', the rampaging [[Monster of the Week]] encounters Owen {{spoiler|after he was [[Our Zombies Are Different|killed and resurrectied]]}}, and, after a moment of disgusted inspection, rejects him as a possible victim. The first time, in "Something Borrowed", {{spoiler|the monster doesn't eat dead meat}}, and the second time, "From Out of The Rain", {{spoiler|the villain steals your last breath - and Owen had his last breath some weeks beforehand}}.
** This trope actually forms a major part of the Series 1 finale. The [[Big Bad]] of the season, Abaddon feeds directly off life energy. So how do they kill it? The immortal Captain Jack allows Abaddon to feed off him, but Jack's life energy doesn't run out and Abbadon can't handle it.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* Buffy from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' suffers this once while she's working at the [[Burger Fool|Double Meat Palace]]. Standard vampire fight happens, except the vampire gets the upper hand ({{spoiler|Buffy was quite depressed this season and verged on suicidal at more than one point. She almost let a singing demon kill her once.}})...but when the vamp almost bites her, he finds he 'can't stand the smell' and tries to leave.▼
** In Spike's very first appearance (and his [[Establishing Character Moment]]) he relates how he was at Woodstock and fed on a drugged up hippie - not something he remembers fondly.
▲** Buffy
** In another episode, Angelus bites a jock, but spits out his blood in disgust. The jock was taking steroids {{spoiler|and was mutating into a fish-monster.}}
* An early episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** An early episode
** A very literal example was with the Invenusable Flytrap. He ''literally swallowed'' Jason, Kimberly, Zach, and Billy, but they escaped later by blasting their way out. This was actually a sort of [[Achilles' Heel]] for this [[Man-Eating Plant]]; as his name implied he was armored and very hard to hurt, but his insides weren't so well-protected.
* The cannibal featured in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Lucky" originally ate prostitutes, but eventually switched to a different demographic of women since most of the prostitutes in the area used drugs, which makes them "taste funny".
* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', a demonic tree drains people's body-fluids with its vines, but it becomes poisoned when it tries this on Angel, who is a vampire.
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* An episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had an [[Emotion Eater]] defeated when Leo's [[Unstoppable Rage]] caused him to explode.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', {{spoiler|the near omnipotent Utopia Dopant draws power from [[Emotion Eater|the hope and resolve of people]]. He meets his end when he faces Double during Philip's [[Last Dance]]. Philip's [[Heroic Resolve]] to save his sister with his final act overloads Utopia, allowing Double to defeat him.}}
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", the gaseous monster attacks Spock, only to find his copper-based Vulcan blood inedible, and flees. McCoy wryly jokes that Spock "must have left a bad taste in its mouth" which Spock says is figuratively true.
** Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.▼
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.▼
▲*** One episode introduced the Kazon, whom the Borg found so utterly unremarkable that assimilating them would add nothing to the Collective. Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.
▲*** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.
* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'':
{{quote|'''Patsy Stone''': The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.}}
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* In ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'' Leaf [http://www.fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c381 argued for] traveling with Feiht.
{{quote|'''Leaf''': Besides, while she's with us, monsters will avoid us - they have dignity. And dignity and [[The Fair Folk|pixies]] don't mix.}}
{{quote|Curiously, the book explaining the taxes applicable to importing galaxy-sized dragons remained unchanged. Accountants have so far failed to agree whether this was because the concept was silly enough in its own right, or the tax law was so chaotic already that there was nothing the Ur-pixie could add.}}
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=020415 reassures] Minionbot about its fate.
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]''; the heroine manages to scare Moloch himself away by [http://nonadventures.com/2011/03/18/how-now-loud-trou/ explaining why she's wearing vinyl pants.]
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** One episode features something [[Tastes Like Diabetes|so horrible]], even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: [[Captain Ersatz|"Baloney"]] the Dinosaur.
** The episode involving Satan also featured them accidentally ending up in <s>Hell</s> [[Gosh Darn It to Heck|Hades]] and fleeing in terror from their assigned punishment: listening to "whiny protest songs from the sixties" for all eternity.
* This is one of the central tropes of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** In "Little Rock of Horror!", a brain-eating meteor-creature first attempts to eat Billy's brain but finds nothing. When it later devours Mandy's brain, it screams in pain, dies, and then reforms—but with Mandy in control. She comments "I guess my brain was a little too... spicy [for him]."
** Another episode has a Chupacabra latching onto Billy's face, which Grim claims to be an attempt to suck out his brain. Mandy laments that the poor creature would starve.
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{{Quote| '''Helen''': I see your point.}}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, "Dead Dog Walking", Chris gives vaping a try, creating a circle ring. Cue [[The Ring|Sadako Yamamura]] entering from the smoked ring, causing Chris and Stewie to run for lives. Then, cue Sadako Yamamura running for hers from [[Catch Phrase|who else but Quagmire]].
* The ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Killjoys" has vampire clowns, who feed on laughter; thus, when one of them catches Kylie in an early scene, it doesn't want to eat her - she's a glum type who doesn't laugh much. Which might mean... Kylie was
* In ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', Ember is a dragon who [[Picky People Eater|only eats princesses]], finding any other humans as appetizing as junk food. Thus when she captures and ties up Zee (not a princess but cosplaying as one) and tries to eat her, Ember reaction is, ''"Disgusting! Revolting! Barf-tastic!"'' Oddly, [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|Zee seems far more upset about ''that'' than Ember trying to eat her.]]
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